“I'm slowly losing my optimism’: Pests are destroying pine trees in the Pupplinger Au. More than 50 trees have to be felled or trimmed.
Fungus causes trees to gradually die. Most of the trees have turned into spindly skeletons. In some areas of the Schneeheide pine forest, up to 80 percent can no longer be saved. The trees are to be cut down to a height of four meters in spring or autumn using large machines, so-called harvesters.